Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium
Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium (also known as the “Big Lotus“),
serves as the venue for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Hangzhou Asian Games and the Asian Para Games,
as well as the main stadium and track and field competition venue for the Hangzhou Asian Games.
The Tennis Center (also known as the “Little Lotus“),is the competition and training venue for the tennis events at the Hangzhou Asian Games.
Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Tennis Center, also known as the “Little Lotus“
is located on the south bank of the Qiantang River in Binjiang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.
It features a petal design, consisting of 24 “small petals” and 8 rotating “large petals,”
and is the first to adopt a “revolving opening and closing” roof that can rotate to open or close according to the weather conditions.
It was completed in 2021 and serves as the venue for the tennis competition of the 19th Hangzhou Asian Games.
The main stadium of Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center is located on the south bank of the Qiantang River
covering an area of approximately 82,300 square meters.
It is currently the third stadium in China with a capacity of over 80,000 spectators
(the first two being Beijing’s “Bird’s Nest” and Guangdong Olympic Sports Center Stadium).
The Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Tennis Center has a total construction area of 52,300 square meters and a total seating capacity of 15,600 seats.
It features a 10,000-seat covered final court (Little Lotus), two 2,000-seat semi-final courts, eight preliminary match courts, eight practice courts, and one indoor tennis hall.
In 2020, the “Little Lotus” was awarded a two-star certification by the International Tennis Federation.
In 2021, the “Little Lotus” was appraised by a panel of experts as a world-first innovation developed by the team of Luo Yaozhi from Zhejiang University
which involved the “Innovation of Modern Spatial Structure System, Key Technologies,and Engineering Applications,”
and it received the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award.
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